"The better the brakes, the faster you can drive" John Netto

John Netto is a cross-asset class trader and published author. He speaks four foreign languages and his latest book, The Global Macro Edge, reveals techniques used to identify and solve the largest problems facing investors, traders, and financial advisors.

Media Appearances

John has appeared on CNBC's Fast Money, Closing Bell, and Squawk on the Street, as well as Bloomberg, CNN, Fox Business Channel, and PBS. He has conducted numerous live trading webinars where viewers watch his P&L, positions, and orders in real time for total transparency of his methods.

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Mission

The Protean Trader's mission is to help its members maximize return per unit-of-risk by providing cutting edge strategies, innovative technology, and actionable market insight.

Veterans

The Protean Trader is a proud supporter of the wounded veteran foundation, Rebuilding Warriors. Rebuilding Warriors provides highly trained and socialized Service/ Companion Dogs to Veterans diagnosed as Amputees, as well as those with PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury).
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Book

The ability to incorporate the underlying fundamental narrative and dynamically allocate to regime appropriate strategies. These strategies are risk-defined, non-correlated, liquid, and spread across multiple asset classes. Technology is used to measure, monitor, and optimize those strategies based on their return per Unit-of-Risk. This is done in a transparent structure giving investors total control of their capital.

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Mike Bellafiore, Author, One Good Trade and The Play Book, Managing Partner, SMB Capital

The Global Macro Edge is a book that not only redefines what alpha is, but outlines exactly what to pay for it. The Netto Number, Risk Factor Compensation System, and other proposed innovations provide a template for incentive fees that Wall Street and investors can use for years to come. Learn new strategies from this veteran professional futures trader for your investing/trading. Enjoy John's debunking of myths getting in the way of your investing/trading, like "money always finds its most efficient home." Thoughtful, well-written, seeped in value, add this trading/investing book to your financial education.

The Global Macro Edge is a unique and generous compilation of market analysis and trading ideas from an impressive array of contributors. This book is exceedingly thorough and challenges some of the main stream philosophies of trading in a thought provoking manner. John Netto goes to great lengths to make his journey and methods transparent. No detail is spared.

Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street

Netto's goal to recalibrate how investors assess information, opportunity, and performance in the markets is laudable given his impressive trading performance during 2010-2015, while he was writing this book. In a style that will give you as many goosebumps as an Adele song, Netto not only redefines what investment skill is, but also how one should be compensated for it.

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